Juventino[RUS];5552000 said:
Khedira - strength/pressing, Pjanic - creativity/build-up play, Marchisio - creativity/build up play, Sturaro - strength/pressing, Lemina - strength/pressing, Rincon - strength/build up play, which team had a better options for central midfield zone in the past season? Who was Casemiro before the start of the season? Or Isco aka the wonderboy who is always benched? Same story with James, Kovacic etc., the problem is that Modric - Kroos > Khedira - Pjanic when it came to the final of the CL, as for wingers we never had a plan to play 4231 from the start of the season, it was spontaneous decision, and yes we had depth - 20+ players have played for more than 1200+ minutes, the problem is that that depth was not for 4231, we had 2 players in the starting line up that were playing out of position - Mandzukic and Dybala, Dybala is no way a playmaker, he is SS and that's it

It comes down to Pjanic, Khedira and Marchisio. Marchisio who wasn't there and who wasn't ready. So we LITERALLY had 2 and we played them: Pjanic - Khedira. Who thought those two would work in a 2 man midfield? Nobody. But it did. And it was fragile -- which was seen in the final, especially in the second half when our team disappeared.
You can say whatever you want about Casemiro but he had a brilliant season and he's a great player now. That's like if I say 'Mandzukic was a new player on the left side'.
And no, we didn't have depth. We simply had to play other players to keep main ones fresh. Read: we had nobody to replace Higuain, we had no options for wingers, we had no options for midfield duo. If you think Sturaro/Rincon are worthy of Juve rotation that you've got some serious brain damage. Yes, you're right, we never planned to play 2-3-1. But we did. We started playing it because it was plain obvious we had no depth for midfield.
